NEWS of a new variant has been circulating recently in international epidemiological circles implying the world is about to enter another year – its fourth – of living with COVID-19.
The coronavirus has so far defied prediction and medical experts differ in their outlook...
GLOBALISATION is erasing our geographic boundaries and causing a shift towards collaboration and communities of interest, yet our local communities remain important for crisis management and immediate response.
Climate change is a reality affecting the entire globe in diverse ways.
Information technology and accurate data capture...
CLIMATE change is the long-term change in the earth’s climate caused by the release of greenhouse gases – such as carbon dioxide and methane which trap heat in the earth’s atmosphere, causing it to become hotter. (global warming, currently between 1.5°C and 2°C).
Greenhouse gases...
FREQUENTLY, we have heard of the city fathers’ intentions of making Harare ‘a world-class city’.
This flies in the face of the forfeiture of Harare’s urban design that has been replaced by numerous unserviced areas.
Unlike architecture, which focuses on the design of individual buildings, urban...
BY now most readers are familiar with the agricultural statistics, albeit pre-land reform, that have been repeatedly quoted vis-à-vis the importance of agriculture in Zimbabwe.
It is the backbone of the economy.
Over 60-70 percent of the labour force is employed in agriculture and provides income...
CLIMATE change is modifying the environment we live in, with global warming expected to rise in the coming decades.
Rainfall patterns have changed in the region.
Historically, December/January are the wettest months with the highest precipitation.
As precipitation peaks across Zimbabwe in 2023, with chances of flooding...
FOLLOWING hot on the trail of the recent devastating COVID-19 pandemic, the director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO) determined that the recent global monkeypox outbreak represented a public health emergency of international concern.
In August 2022 WHO responded by organising the WHO R&D...
ZIMBABWE made great medical strides containing the COVID-19 pandemic, through a rigid and disciplined vaccination campaign during 2021 and 2022.
Today, however, a new virus, in the form of monkeypox virus, has recently emerged to threaten the world. Is Zimbabwe prepared for it?
With the eradication...
IN Zimbabwe, November is synonymous with Chimoio – a mindless massacre of innocent Zimbabwean lives wrought by the racist Rhodesian forces.
We can only commiserate for those who survived this traumatic colonial carnage on defenceless African people.
In the 1970s, Ian Smith’s Government instituted a...
THE most significant aspect about the Commonwealth delegation visit to assess the country’s progress in its quest to rejoin the grouping was that great strides have been made on Harare’s engagement and re-engagement drive.
There, however, continue to be toxic characters like Nelson Chamisa and...
IS urban agriculture a panacea for food crisis?
Although large numbers of people, by circumstance or choice, remain in rural areas where they struggle to make a decent living, the rate of urbanisation in recent years has been accelerating in most of Africa, including Zimbabwe.
In...
AQUATIC ecosystems perform many important environmental functions.
For example, they recycle nutrients, purify water, attenuate floods, recharge groundwater and provide habitats for wildlife.
Aquatic ecosystems are also used for human recreation, and are very important to the tourism industry, especially in coastal regions of southern Africa.
The...
